Master essayist gadfly literary mythfigure and viewer of dark portentHarlan Ellison has been for the greater part of his life a burr under thesaddle of Complace... » 

Master essayist gadfly literary mythfigure and viewer of dark portentHarlan Ellison has been for the greater part of his life a burr under thesaddle of Complacency. His two books of TV criticism The Glass Teat and TheOther Glass Teat are taught in more than 200 universities and colleges. Inthis his former assistant and confidante Marty Clark has culled fromhundreds of rare and unreprinted works twenty wideranging essays thatdemonstrate why the monstre sacr of imaginative literature won the prestigiousSilver Pen award of P.E.N. International for his journalistic frays in 1982. «